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nor brooks nor the murdoch empire. lynn, back to you. >> jim maceda in london for us. jim, thanks so much. >>> well, back here at home on capitol hill the back and forth battle over the nation's budget crisis will reach the house floor today when republicans vote on a plan calling for steep spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling. well, democrats say the measure will never pass the senate, and president obama has vowed to veto the bill. still, the president is saying he is seeing progress. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with more. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. republicans are calling this bill cut, cap and balance. essentially they want to cut the deficit, cap what the federal government is spending and then move toward a balanced budget amendment. an amendment to the constitution. democrats say those cuts hurt too heavily medicare and social security. it is expected to pass the house, not expected to pass the senate. will not get the president's signature. so that, de
nor brooks nor the murdoch empire. lynn, back to you. >> jim maceda in london for us. jim, thanks so much. >>> well, back here at home on capitol hill the back and forth battle over the nation's budget crisis will reach the house floor today when republicans vote on a plan calling for steep spending cuts in return for raising the debt ceiling. well, democrats say the measure will never pass the senate, and president obama has vowed to veto the bill. still, the president is saying...
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. >>> rupert murdoch is feeling the financial and political fallout from a phone-hacking scandal that rocked his media empire. giving into pressure from england's parliament, murdoch dropped his $12 billion bid for a full paid tv network. and new this morning the former executive editor of the defunct tabloid "news of the world" has been arrested. the ninth arrest resulting from police investigations into phone hacking and bribery of police officers. the scandal now spans at least two continents but the u.s. congressman peter king chairman of the homeland security committee calling for the fbi to find out if murdoch's news corp tried to illegally obtain phone records of 9/11 victims. >>> authorities in india are still searching for the culprits behind wednesday's deadly bombings that left at least 18 people dead and 133 more injured. residents are still shaken up after coordinated explosions that rocked three separate neighborhoods in mumbai happened during rush hour on wednesday. the attacks came just months after india resumed peace talks with pakistan. so far, no group has taken re
. >>> rupert murdoch is feeling the financial and political fallout from a phone-hacking scandal that rocked his media empire. giving into pressure from england's parliament, murdoch dropped his $12 billion bid for a full paid tv network. and new this morning the former executive editor of the defunct tabloid "news of the world" has been arrested. the ninth arrest resulting from police investigations into phone hacking and bribery of police officers. the scandal now spans at...
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, the wife of rupert murdoch. she was the first person to leap to her husband's defense when a protester tried to hit him in the face with a pie as he was testifying in front of parliament about that phone-hacking scandal. who is she, and what do her actions say about her? we'll get into that. >>> and i may be holding a delectable dessert, but we'll be talking about restaurant chains that sell meals and desserts like this that can give you an entire day's worth of calorie and fat in one sitting. >> i know. and it looks really enticing. >> you shouldn't drink it, but on a day like today, you put it on your forehead. it's nice. >>> on that point, let's go directly to al for a check of today's weather. hey, al. >> in fact, on the map, you get an idea, when you say 32 states, we're talking about 100 million people. almost two-thirds of the population of the united states under either a heat watch, a heat warning or a heat advisory. and here's why. we've got this big area, upper-level ridge of high pressure. but here's
, the wife of rupert murdoch. she was the first person to leap to her husband's defense when a protester tried to hit him in the face with a pie as he was testifying in front of parliament about that phone-hacking scandal. who is she, and what do her actions say about her? we'll get into that. >>> and i may be holding a delectable dessert, but we'll be talking about restaurant chains that sell meals and desserts like this that can give you an entire day's worth of calorie and fat in...
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>> reporter: murdoch's marriage grabbed the headlines. murdoch's marriage grabbed the headlines and no one is under any illusions. the substance hasn't changed. murdoch's empire is threatened by the deepening british investigation. >> just the beginying of all of the questions. martin fletcher in london. thank you. >>> the tsa is installing new privacy protection technology in 40 airports around the country and with the new software, when travelers pass through security, a generic body outline will be shown instead of the image of a naked body that had many flyers outraged. >>> hurricane dora is now a massive category 4 storm and is picking up steam churning off pacific coast of mexico. dora could bring life-threatening waves and riptides to the coast there and will not make landfall. there have been no atlantic hurricanes yet this season. let's head to wall street. mandy drury joins us at the new york stock exchange. good morning. >> good morning, natalie. it might be really hot outside, but weak economic date from both china and the eur
>> reporter: murdoch's marriage grabbed the headlines. murdoch's marriage grabbed the headlines and no one is under any illusions. the substance hasn't changed. murdoch's empire is threatened by the deepening british investigation. >> just the beginying of all of the questions. martin fletcher in london. thank you. >>> the tsa is installing new privacy protection technology in 40 airports around the country and with the new software, when travelers pass through security, a...
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at his father's side today, james murdoch. many say his performance today will have a direct impact on his future with the company. questioned separately, rebekah brooks, former editor of news of the world, she resigned last friday. two days later, the 43-year-old was connected with her alleged connection to phone hacking and position with police officers. >> the statements of rebekah brooks can be simply stated, she is not guilty of any criminal defense. >> reporter: it comes two weeks after a controversy rocking their family -- five high profile resignations and ten arrests. on monday, the death of shaun hoare, the first journalist pointing the finger at andy coulson. police say his death is unexplained, but not suspicious. and in an ironic twist, the company accused of hacking got hacked themselves. murdoch's son paper had to remove this headline from their website last night. today's story makes no mention of poor limit or their boss, rupert murdoch. you're looking at live pictures of the testimony. a lot of what they are
at his father's side today, james murdoch. many say his performance today will have a direct impact on his future with the company. questioned separately, rebekah brooks, former editor of news of the world, she resigned last friday. two days later, the 43-year-old was connected with her alleged connection to phone hacking and position with police officers. >> the statements of rebekah brooks can be simply stated, she is not guilty of any criminal defense. >> reporter: it comes two...
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rupert murdoch and rebekah brooks spotted heading in. they will face sufficient questions about what they knew and when as news corp. reporters allegedly hacked into cell phone voice mails belonging to murder victims, even soldiers who died in afghanistan and iraq. here is a weird silicon valley twist. the same guy who resigned as a board member of hewlett-packard after hp was caught hacking into phones is on the board of news corp. tom perkins one of the richest in the world stepped down. but he fully supports news corp. he says murdock couldn't possibly have known about the hacks and hp executives did. does one hack deserve another? dozens of websites knocked off line. here's the sun, one of the newspapers there. we'll continue to monitor this question and answer session. we don't expect them to say much because while there is no such thing as a fifth amendment in england there is something similar. we expect them to remain silent. they are talking about crimes. >> going to be interesting to watch it play out. thank you, scott. 62-year
rupert murdoch and rebekah brooks spotted heading in. they will face sufficient questions about what they knew and when as news corp. reporters allegedly hacked into cell phone voice mails belonging to murder victims, even soldiers who died in afghanistan and iraq. here is a weird silicon valley twist. the same guy who resigned as a board member of hewlett-packard after hp was caught hacking into phones is on the board of news corp. tom perkins one of the richest in the world stepped down. but...
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but how much of a problem is it for rupert murdoch? >> it's a massive problem. remember the "sun" and "news of the world" are the only ones that made him money. the thing he desperately wanted with a b sky b broadcasting and now he's had to withdraw because he knows the politicians were not going to -- >> not only the politicians wouldn't support it but do you think that deal is now dead because the people in murdoch's organization understand that there's probably more damaging evidence about to come out? >> when they did the inquiry in 2007, they said there was one road reporter and eight people had been hacked. yesterday i spoke to a senior officer at the metropolitan police who said 4,800 people's phones had been hacked and they haven't even started to get to bottom of the things that have been done. >> this has pulled back a curtain, if you will, and exposed a very dark side of tab lloyd journalist. you can almost hear this story being pulled across the atlantic yesterday with the senators writing letters to eric holder and congressmen waiting to mr. muler a
but how much of a problem is it for rupert murdoch? >> it's a massive problem. remember the "sun" and "news of the world" are the only ones that made him money. the thing he desperately wanted with a b sky b broadcasting and now he's had to withdraw because he knows the politicians were not going to -- >> not only the politicians wouldn't support it but do you think that deal is now dead because the people in murdoch's organization understand that there's...
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that's, of course, murdoch's wife. you can see the 6 foot tall volleyball walker on her feet to pry to protect her husband. >>> a self-confessed comedian and activist, before he threw it threw an almost quote from charles dickinson, a tale of two cities, it's a far better thing that i do now than i've ever done before. splat. >>> 6:57, a couple of big ipos today. scott mcgrew joins us now. >> good morning. you've got zillow and skull candy. zillow opening the nasdaq this morning. stocks slightly higher an apple's great news. apple is up 3 1/3%. apple a stock to watch. that company, marla, turned in record profits on tuesday. one analyst just titled his report, wow. steve jobs list of how he would put it if he were there. >> boom, boom, boom, boom boom. >> steve jobs loves the word. a collection of his various presentations over the years. phenomenal stock, up $12 just today. >> the i-boom. >> i'd like to see a little more hand action with that. >> see you later. >> thanks for being with us. have a great day.
that's, of course, murdoch's wife. you can see the 6 foot tall volleyball walker on her feet to pry to protect her husband. >>> a self-confessed comedian and activist, before he threw it threw an almost quote from charles dickinson, a tale of two cities, it's a far better thing that i do now than i've ever done before. splat. >>> 6:57, a couple of big ipos today. scott mcgrew joins us now. >> good morning. you've got zillow and skull candy. zillow opening the nasdaq this...
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they immortalized what happened at rupert murdoch's hearing. did you see it? here's what happened a. protester came at murdoch with a shaving cream pie. his wife dives in. you saw her in the pink. here is a take on the incident from news animators in taiwan. knocks the pie away, the protesters cower on the ground. and then she turns into a tiger, bites him on the leg. like a true wife would. it's 6:57. what have you got? >> good morning. i love that they animate something that actually happened. wall street, worse than expected jobless claims. the dow is ignoring that up 60 points. intel about 2% lower. zillow up about 7%. we're talking about this earlier. take a look at these photographs posted to a blog. looks like an apple store. this is a fake apple store in china. you can see these pictures at birdabroad.com. a fake store. >> how can they pull it off? >> they could until some blogger caught them. the kids look so real. >> amazing. thanks for joining us this morning. the "today" show is coming up next. we'll have a local news update, a little traffic, weat
they immortalized what happened at rupert murdoch's hearing. did you see it? here's what happened a. protester came at murdoch with a shaving cream pie. his wife dives in. you saw her in the pink. here is a take on the incident from news animators in taiwan. knocks the pie away, the protesters cower on the ground. and then she turns into a tiger, bites him on the leg. like a true wife would. it's 6:57. what have you got? >> good morning. i love that they animate something that actually...
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one of murdoch's most highly rega regarded publications. a lawyer from brown's bank sent a memo to the paper in january 2000. someone from the "sunday times" or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as mr. brown for the purpose of obtaining information. news international manages its british papers, says it is aware of the new allegations involving gordon brown and the company is asking for all relevant information so that they can conduct their own investigation. they did not comment on the latest allegations involving the news of the world and the royal family. the bbc reports that members of the royal family security team sold phone details to the paper. and that charles' and camilla's phone cells were among those hacked by reporters. "the sun" paper says it is confident in the methods it used to obtain gordon brown's sons medical records. even so, scotland yard is investigating all of the accusations and is casting a wide net. pop singer george michael says he's being called in for questioning after a number of tweets he posted about reb
one of murdoch's most highly rega regarded publications. a lawyer from brown's bank sent a memo to the paper in january 2000. someone from the "sunday times" or acting on its behalf has masqueraded as mr. brown for the purpose of obtaining information. news international manages its british papers, says it is aware of the new allegations involving gordon brown and the company is asking for all relevant information so that they can conduct their own investigation. they did not comment...
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rupert murdoch's news corp. under fire for allegedly hacking into a dead teen's voice mail, facing new and equally horrifying accusations. i want to check win scott for the details. >> america knows the father of fox tv it owns news of the world, murdock's reporters are under investigation for accessing and even deleting the voice mails of a murdered teen and they may have accessed the voice mails of british soldiers killed in action in iraq and afghanistan. this is according to published reports in a newspaper that a competitor to news of the world. murdock is a native australian, now an american, considered one of the most powerful men in britain. british politicians are usually afraid to take him on but this is growing. there are rumors on facebook that "the social network" will charge for access. it's nonsense. it may stem from talk of the new skype connection. face book is still free. russell brand advertising four hewlett-packard showing off the new tablet. >> this is the hp touch pad. i'm living in americ
rupert murdoch's news corp. under fire for allegedly hacking into a dead teen's voice mail, facing new and equally horrifying accusations. i want to check win scott for the details. >> america knows the father of fox tv it owns news of the world, murdock's reporters are under investigation for accessing and even deleting the voice mails of a murdered teen and they may have accessed the voice mails of british soldiers killed in action in iraq and afghanistan. this is according to published...
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. >> speaking of scary hackers, rupert murdoch and his son are supposed to appear before the british parliament to explain their company's actions in the hacking in britain, phone calls from a murdered girl were hacked by reporters working for murdock. british law can't force them to show up to those hearings. >>> back here in california, the company founded by paypal millionaire will break ground at vandenberg air force base for the falcon heavy rocket. here is the falcon heavy. the smaller falcon nine has lifted off in the past. falcon heavy will be the biggest rocket to go into space since saturn 5 took astronauts to the moon. >> would you go, if you could afford it. >> absolutely. go anywhere, any place, great fun. >> we'll arm wrestle. all right. 5:57 right now. we've got some amazing new developments in the case againsr pull offhet plane for not pulling up his pants. we talked to the d.a. just
. >> speaking of scary hackers, rupert murdoch and his son are supposed to appear before the british parliament to explain their company's actions in the hacking in britain, phone calls from a murdered girl were hacked by reporters working for murdock. british law can't force them to show up to those hearings. >>> back here in california, the company founded by paypal millionaire will break ground at vandenberg air force base for the falcon heavy rocket. here is the falcon heavy....
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. >> rupert murdoch does own an enormous amount of your media and some of your newspapers. and i think people need to ask themselves, you know, who is this man who owns such a large part of our media. i think, you know, when you hear some of the new allegations about who the "news of the world" was phone hacking that may include and i stretch it's allegations at this stage, some of the 9/11 victims, well, i don't know, that may strike a chord with americans. >> and this morning more fallout from the scandal with word that news international's legal manager has left the company. >>> parents who want healthier food options for their children are getting some help today. at least 19 major restaurant chains are announcing they're putting more fruits and vegetables on the children's menu along with whole grains and low fat dairy items. restaurants also say they will do more to promote healthier food options. >>> america has a new medal of honor recipient. sergeant first class leroy petree received the nation's highest military honor on tuesday from president obama. he lost his r
. >> rupert murdoch does own an enormous amount of your media and some of your newspapers. and i think people need to ask themselves, you know, who is this man who owns such a large part of our media. i think, you know, when you hear some of the new allegations about who the "news of the world" was phone hacking that may include and i stretch it's allegations at this stage, some of the 9/11 victims, well, i don't know, that may strike a chord with americans. >> and this...